Archives for
November 2007

The rumors of News Corp's possible acquisition of LinkedIn appear to be substantiated. The two companies have been in serious talks about a deal. Further, Venturebeat speaks of reports also hinting at how News Corp. may be looking to integrate Linked...

Blockbuster has a Facebook application called MovieClique, and it does exactly what you would expect it to do. Search for movies, rate and review them, and create lists. For each movie available in the application, there's several actions you can tak...

The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. New Listings SXP.com Website and Domain for Sale SXP.com, also SocialXperience.com, is a ne...

Pluck is planning on offering its SiteLife social networking platform to be used with Facebook applications and Google's OpenSocial next year. The company behind Blogburst, Pluck's got a few months before developers and web publishers can expect to s...

Here's a shocking admission for you: Japanese animation is something near and dear to my heart. One of the best parts of only good things about working technical support type jobs during the 90s in Dallas was that I was surrounded by Asian folks, man...

Hey, why doesn't Pownce have SMS support, then? Heh, just kidding. He's right, though, although it's not that hard to predict the rise of the mobile web now when tens of thousands of iPhones are being sold. We can remember claims from various sources...

Online address book Plaxo, whose Plaxo Pulse was one of the first applications to support Google's OpenSocial API initiative, now supports syncing with smartphones based on the Windows Mobile operating system. Plaxo already works with the iPhone, and...

With the recent news that Facebook's traffic growth may be leveling off, it seems like an appropriate time to take a walk back through Mashable's history with the social networking site. What follows is just a taste of some of our Facebook coverage, ...

KickApps is releasing a single sign-on module for use with Drupal-powered sites and KickApps hosted social media sites. This comes very soon after KickApps announced single sign-on integration for a couple of other services--Wordpress and Joomla. It'...

YouTube has suspended the account of Wael Abbas, an Egyptian anti-torture activist, because he posted videos of police brutality. The account, which could previously be reached at this address - http://youtube.com/user/waelabbas - now sports the stan...

When those clever CSI detectives aren't guessing which type of African mud they've found on the killer's shoes, they tune into Twitter, where they can find a "minute by minute diary of the victim's life". As insightful as they are, the detectives thr...

Where there's smoke, there's fire. Recent outcry by certain bloggers about Facebook's new advertising platform now gets a formal epilogue, as several privacy groups ready to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission against Facebook's practic...

Although there are no enormous lines and huge crowds in front of stores, the iPhone virus is spreading through Europe. It goes on sale in France today at 18:00, with France Telecom's Orange carrying the exclusive rights, at the price at 749 euros (or...

People search engine PeekYou had launched a new interface that combines Google search results with listings from its directory of people. For example, a search for “Mashable” will return a link to our blog, and on the left include a picture and link ...

Hi-Media Group has officially completed its acquisition of Fotolog, the photo sharing site the company purchased in August for a reported $90 million. Apparently, Fotolog is still growing quite quickly, reporting 3 million new members since the deal ...

Google has released a new version of Google Maps for mobile, which includes a new “My Location” feature that approximates your location by using information from cell phone towers. This means that instead of typing in your current location to get dir...

Do we really need social networks for sports? Lots of companies seem to think so – enough to make it a category in the Open Web Awards. The space saw a big deal early this year – Sports Illustrated purchased Fan Nation for a rumored $20+ million in F...

Ad networks of all shapes and sizes are seeing a good amount of funding as of late, and Spotzer isn't one to be left out in the cold. The video advertising company has just closed on its most recent round of funding, amounting to $14.8 million. Sierr...

TiVo is teaming up with Germany-based Nero, a digital media technology company, to make the home more digital. This will be achieved namely with the ability to get TiVo service on your computer. TiVo's looking to take advantage of the continued mergi...

CondéNet, one of the old media members that has been a bit more fearless in its online efforts, has signed an advertising and distribution deal with YouTube. CondéNet gets to sell the advertising, and it's then split with Google. This is somewhat sim...

The first ever Open Web Awards are now up and running on 30 different blog partners! The nomination round began yesterday and will continue through the rest of the week here on Mashable and participating blogs in 13 different categories. Here are som...

Jangl now supports text messaging. You could already call friends in a free and private manner (and by private, I mean that no one has to give out their number). In the same manner that you initiate or receive a phone call through Jangl, you'll also ...

When asked if he would sell his company for $1 billion, LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye told a CNN reporter that it would take “a lot more than that.” Meanwhile, rumors of acquisitions are abound in the Web space, with everyone from Digg to Automattic rumored t...

BitTorrents are a touchy subject these days, between content owners wanting them destroyed and being in the middle of legal net neutrality issues. And Etology would prefer to stay away from the matter all together. The distributed ad network is getti...

MashMeet Chicago is tomorrow! The event will be hosted by Mashable lead writer Kristen Nicole, host of Chicago’s successful Web Ascent event in June. She’ll be joined by fellow Mashable writer Andy Angelos, and interesting attendees will be covered h...

Microsoft is succumbing to patent trolls today, as they're being ordered to pay over $140 million for, get this, asking for two passwords. The original award was ordered in April last year by a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, widely known as the fri...

Windows Live Messenger 9 was launched in private beta yesterday to a few thousand people, but a download link has been leaked and can be accessed on softpedia, in case you'd like to try it out for yourself. Microsoft has warned that too many users ma...

Yahoo now has a Facebook module that you can add to your My Yahoo start page. It will tell you some basics about your Facebook status: how many new messages you have, if you've got any pending friend requests, invitations, and pokes. This is a fairly...

Photo sharing – one of the biggest and most successful areas of Web 2.0, and likely to be a hotly contested area of the Open Web Awards. Flickr recently passed the 2 billion upload mark, while earlier in the year we saw Photobucket acquired by Fox In...

Everyone loves photos, and they'll put them anywhere. On calendars, mugs, t-shirts, and coasters. Which is why American Greetings Corp. seems so very interested in online photo services that provide ways in which to do all these things with your phot...

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